Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a Lecturer at Soka University in the Graduate School of International Peace Studies (SIPS). Previously, Lydia Ayame was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She also holds an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent and a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from SOAS. Her research interests include social movements, climate change and ecology, social inequities, migration, and reproductive politics.

• 1 Introduction: Taking a Black feminist approach to environmentalism 2 Intersectionality: Claims and contestations 3 Questions for a billion green Black feminisms 4 Environmentalism and intersectionality: Histories andtrajectories 5 Intersectional absences and presences in environmentalism 6 ‘Until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable’

Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a Lecturer at Soka University in the Graduate School of International Peace Studies (SIPS). Previously, Lydia Ayame was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She also holds an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent and a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from SOAS. Her research interests include social movements, climate change and ecology, social inequities, migration, and reproductive politics.

• 1 Introduction: Taking a Black feminist approach to environmentalism 2 Intersectionality: Claims and contestations 3 Questions for a billion green Black feminisms 4 Environmentalism and intersectionality: Histories andtrajectories 5 Intersectional absences and presences in environmentalism 6 ‘Until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable’

Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a Lecturer at Soka University in the Graduate School of International Peace Studies (SIPS). Previously, Lydia Ayame was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London, and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths, which was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She also holds an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent and a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from SOAS. Her research interests include social movements, climate change and ecology, social inequities, migration, and reproductive politics.

• 1 Introduction: Taking a Black feminist approach to environmentalism 2 Intersectionality: Claims and contestations 3 Questions for a billion green Black feminisms 4 Environmentalism and intersectionality: Histories andtrajectories 5 Intersectional absences and presences in environmentalism 6 ‘Until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable’